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CHRISTIAN  HEALING 

AND 

THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF 
GOD 

SERMONS   DELIVERED    AT  BOSTON 
BY 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

PASTOR    EMERITUS    AND    AUTHOR    OF   SCIENCE    AND    HEALTH 
WITH    KEY   TO   THE   SCRIPTURES 


Published  by 

The  Christian  Science  Publishing  Society 

FOR  THE  TRUSTEES  UNDER  THE  WILL  OF  MARY  BAKER  G.  EDDY 

BOSTON,  U.S.A. 


Authorized  Literature  of 

The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist 

in  Boston,  Massachusetts 


Copyright,  iqo8 
By  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy 


All  rights  reserved 


CONTENTS 


FACE 

Christian  Healing i 

The    People's    Idea    of    God  :    Its    Effect    on 

Health  and  Christianity i 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING 

BY 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

AUTHOR   OF   SCIENCE   AND    HEALTH    WITH   KEY  TO   THE 
SCRIPTURES 

A  SERMON  DELIVERED  AT  BOSTON 


Published  by 

The  Christian  Science  Publishing  Society 

FOR  THE  TRUSTEES  UNDER  THE  WILL  OF  MARY  BAKER  G.  EDOT 

BOSTON,  U.S.A. 


Authorized  Literature  of 

The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist 

in  Boston,  Massachusetts 


Copyright,  1886 
By  Mrs.  Glover  Eddy 

Copyright,  igo8 
Bt  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy 

Copyright  renewed,  1914 


All  rights  reserved 


SERMON 

SUBJECT 

CHRISTIAN    HEALING 

Text:  And  these  signs  shall  follow  them  thai  believe;  In  my  name 
ihall  they  cast  out  devils;  they  shall  speak  with  new  tongues;  they 
shall  take  up  serpents;  and  if  they  drink  any  deadly  thing,  it  shall 
not  hurt  them;  they  shall  lay  hands  on  the  sick,  and  they  shall  recover. 
—  Mark  xvi.  17,  18. 

T  TISTQRY  repeats  itself;  to-morrow  grows  out  of  to- 
'*'  ^  day.  But  Heaven's  favors  are  formidable:  they  are 
calls  to  higher  duties,  not  discharge  from  care;  and  whoso 
builds  on  less  than  an  immortal  basis,  hath  built  on  sand. 
We  have  asked,  in  our  selfishness,  to  wait  until  the  age 
advanced  to  a  more  practical  and  spiritual  religion  before 
arguing  with  the  world  the  great  subject  of  Christian  heal- 
ing; but  our  answer  was,  "Then  there  were  no  cross  to 
take  up,  and  less  need  of  publishing  the  good  news."  A 
classic  writes,  — 

"At  thirty,  man  suspects  himself  a  fool; 
Knows  it  at  forty,  and  reforms  his  plan; 
At  fifty,  chides  his  infamous  delay. 
Pushes  his  prudent  purpose  to  resolve." 

The  difference  between  religions  is,  that  one  religion  has  a 
more  spiritual  basis  and  tendency  than  the  other;    and 

1 


2  SERMON 

the  religion  nearest  right  is  that  one.  The  genius  of 
Christianity  is  works  more  than  words;  a  calm  and  stead- 
fast communion  with  God;  a  tumult  on  earth,  —  religious 
factions  and  prejudices  arrayed  against  it,  the  synagogues 
as  of  old  closed  upon  it,  while  it  reasons  with  the  storm, 
hurls  the  thunderbolt  of  truth,  and  stills  the  tempest  of 
error;  scourged  and  condemned  at  every  advancing  foot- 
step, afterwards  pardoned  and  adopted,  but  never  seen 
amid  the  smoke  of  battle.  Said  the  intrepid  reformer, 
Martin  Luther:  "I  am  weary  of  the  world,  and  the  world 
is  weary  of  me;  the  parting  will  be  easy."  Said  the  more 
gentle  Melanchthon:  "Old  Adam  is  too  strong  for  young 
Melanchthon." 

And  still  another  Christian  hero,  ere  he  passed  from 
his  execution  to  a  crown,  added  his  testimony:  "I  have 
fought  a  good  fight,  ...  I  have  kept  the  faith."  But 
Jesus,  the  model  of  infinite  patience,  said:  "Come  unto 
me,  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will 
give  you  rest."  And  he  said  this  when  bending  beneath 
the  malice  of  the  world.  But  why  should  the  world  hate 
Jesus,  the  loved  of  the  Father,  the  loved  of  Love?  It  was 
that  his  spirituality  rebuked  their  carnality,  and  gave  this 
proof  of  Christianity  that  religions  had  not  given.  Again, 
they  knew  it  was  not  in  the  power  of  eloquence  or  a  dead 
rite  to  cast  out  error  and  heal  the  sick.  Past,  present, 
future  magnifies  his  name  who  built,  on  Truth,  eternity's 
foundation  stone,  and  sprinkled  the  altar  of  Love  with 
perpetual  incense. 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  3 

Such  Christianity  requires  neither  hygiene  nor  drugs 
wherewith  to  heal  both  mind  and  body;  or,  lacking  these, 
to  show  its  helplessness.  The  primitive  privilege  of  Chris- 
tianity was  to  make  men  better,  to  cast  out  error,  and  heal 
the  sick.  It  was  a  proof,  more  than  a  profession  thereof; 
a  demonstration,  more  than  a  doctrine.  It  was  the  foun- 
dation of  right  thinking  and  right  acting,  and  must  be 
reestablished  on  its  former  basis.  The  stone  which  the 
builders  rejected  must  again  become  the  head  of  the 
corner.'^  In  proportion  as  the  personal  and  material  ele- 
ment stole  into  religion,  it  lost  Christianity  and  the  power 
to  heal;<and  the  qualities  of  God  as  a  person,  instead  of 
the  divine  Principle  that  begets  the  quality^ngrossed  the 
attention  of  the  ages.lln  the  original  text  the  term  God 
was  derived  from  the  word  good.  Christ  is  the  idea 
of  Truth;  Jesus  is  the  name  of  a  man  born  in  a  remote 
province  of  Judea,  —  Josephus  alludes  to  several  indi- 
viduals by  the  name  of  Jesus.  Therefore  Christ  Jesus  was 
an  honorary  title;  it  signified  a  "good  man,"  which  epi- 
thet the  great  goodness  and  wonderful  works  of  our 
Master  more  than  meritedj^Because  God  is  the  Principle  of 
Christian  healing,  we  must  understand  in  part  this  divine 
Principle,  or  we  cannot  demonstrate  it  in  part/J 

The  Scriptures  declare  that  "God  is  Love,  Truth,  and 
Life,"  —  a  trinity  in  unity;  not  three  persons  in  one,  but 
three  statements  of  one  Principle.  We  cannot  tell  what  is 
the  person  of  Truth,  the  body  of  the  infinite,  but  we  know 
that  the  Principle  is  not  the  person,  that  the  finite  cannot 


4  SERMON 

contain  the  infinite,  that  unlimited  Mind  cannot  start  from 
a  limited  body.  The  infinite  can  neither  go  forth  from, 
return  to,  nor  remain  for  a  moment  within  limits.  We 
must  give  freer  breath  to  thought  before  calculating  the 
results  of  an  infinite  Principle,  —  the  effects  of  infinite 
Love,  the  compass  of  infinite  Life,  the  power  of  infinite 
Truth.  [jCIothing  Deity  with  personality,  we  limit  the  ac- 
tion of  God  to  the  finite  senses/J  We  pray  for  God  to  re- 
member us,  even  as  we  ask  a  person  with  softening  of  the 
brain  not  to  forget  his  daily  cares.  We  ask  infinite  wisdom 
to  possess  our  finite  sense,  and  forgive  what  He  knows 
deserves  to  be  punished,  and  to  bless  what  is  unfit  to  be 
blessed.  We  expect  infinite  Love  to  drop  divinity  long 
enough  to  hate.  We  expect  infinite  Truth  to  mix  with 
error,  and  become  finite  for  a  season;  and,  after  infinite 
Spirit  is  forced  in  and  out  of  matter  for  an  indefinite  period, 
to  show  itself  infinite  again.  We  expect  infinite  Life  to 
become  finite,  and  have  an  end;  but,  after  a  temporary 
lapse,  to  begin  anew  as  infinite  Life,  without  beginning  and 
without  end. 

Friends,  can  we  ever  arrive  at  a  proper  conception  of  the 
divine  character,  and  gain  a  right  idea  of  the  Principle  of 
all  that  is  right,  with  such  self-evident  contradictions? 
God  must  be  our  model,  or  we  have  none;  and  if  this 
model  is  one  thing  at  one  time,  and  the  opposite  of  it  at 
another,  can  we  rely  on  our  model?  Or,  having  faith  in  it, 
hov^iiaii.  we.demonstrate  a  changing  Principle?  We  can- 
not: we  shall  be  consistent  with  our  inconsistent  statement 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  6 

of  Deity,  and  so  bring  out  our  own  erring  finite  sense  of 
God,  and  of  good  and  evil  blending.  While  admitting 
that  God  is  omnipotent,  we  shall  be  limiting  His  power  at 
every  point,  —  shall  be  saying  He  is  beaten  by  certain  kinds 
of  food,  by  changes  of  temperature,  the  neglect  of  a  bath, 
and  so  on.  Phrenology  will  be  saying  the  developments  of 
the  brain  bias  a  man's  character.  Physiology  will  be  say- 
ing, if  a  man  has  taken  cold  by  doing  good  to  his  neighbor, 
God  will  punish  him  now  for  the  cold,  but  he  must  wait  for 
the  reward  of  his  good  deed  hereafter.  One  of  our  lead- 
ing clergymen  startles  us  by  saying  that  "  between  Chris- 
tianity and  spiritualism,  the  question  chiefly  is  concerning 
the  trustworthiness  of  the  communications,  and  not  the 
doubt  of  their  reality."  Does  any  one  think  the  departed 
are  not  departed,  but  are  with  us,  although  we  have  no 
evidence  of  the  fact  except  sleight-of-hand  and  hallu- 
cination? 

Such  hypotheses  ignore  Biblical  authority,  obscure  the 
one  grand  truth  which  is  constantly  covered,  in  one  way 
or  another,  from  our  sight.  This  truth  is,  that  we  are 
to  work  out  our  own  salvation,  and  to  meet  the  responsi- 
bility of  our  own  thoughts  and  acts;  relying  not  on  the 
person  of  God  or  the  person  of  man  to  do  our  work  for  us, 
but  on  the  apostle's  rule,  "I  will  show  thee  my  faith  by 
my  works."  This  spiritualism  would  lead  our  lives  to 
higher  issues;  it  would  purify,  elevate,  and  consecrate 
man;  it  would  teach  him  that  "whatsoever  a  man  soweth, 
that  shall  he  also  reap."    The  more  spiritual  we  become 


6  SERMON 

here,  the  more  are  we  separated  from  the  world;  and 
should  this  rule  fail  hereafter,  and  we  grow  more  material, 
and  so  come  back  to  the  world?  When  I  was  told  the  other 
day,  "People  say  you  are  a  medium,"  pardon  me  if  I 
smiled.  The  pioneer  of  something  new  under  the  sun  is 
never  hit:  he  cannot  be;  the  opinions  of  people  fly  too 
high  or  too  low.  From  my  earliest  investigations  of  the 
mental  phenomenon  named  mediumship,  I  knew  it  was 
misinterpreted,  and  I  said  it.  The  spiritualists  abused  me 
for  it  then,  and  have  ever  since;  but  they  take  pleasure  in 
calling  me  a  medium.  I  saw  the  impossibility,  in  Science, 
of  intercommunion  between  the  so-called  dead  and  the 
living.  When  I  learned  how  mind  produces  disease  on  the 
body,  I  learned  how  it  produces  the  manifestations  ig- 
norantly  imputed  to  spirits.  I  saw  how  the  mind's  ideals 
were  evolved  and  made  tangible;  and  it  matters  not 
whether  that  ideal  is  a  flower  or  a  cancer,  if  the  belief  is 
strong  enough  to  manifest  it.  Man  thinks  he  is  a  medium 
of  disease;  that  when  he  is  sick,  disease  controls  his  body 
to  whatever  manifestation  we  see.  But  the  fact  remains, 
in  metaphysics,  that  the  mind  of  the  individual  only  can 
produce  a  result  upon  his  body.  The  belief  that  produces 
this  result  may  be  wholly  unknown  to  the  individual,  be- 
cause it  is  lying  back  in  the  unconscious  thought,  a  latent 
cause  producing  the  effect  we  see. 

"And  these  signs  shall  follow  them  that  believe;  In 
my  name  shall  they  cast  out  devils."  The  word  devil 
comes  from  the  Greek  diabolos;  in  Hebrew  it  is  helial,  and 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  7 

signifies  "that  which  is  good  for  nothing,  lust,"  etc.  The 
signs  referred  to  are  the  manifestations  of  the  power  of 
Truth  to  cast  out  error;  and,  correcting  error  in  thought, 
it  produces  the  harmonious  effect  on  the  body.  "Them 
that  believe"  signifies  those  who  understand  God's  su- 
premacy, —  the  power  of  Mind  over  matter.  "The  new 
tongue  "  is  the  spiritual  meaning  as  opposed  to  the  material. 
It  is  the  language  of  Soul  instead  of  the  senses;  it  translates 
matter  into  its  original  language,  which  is  Mind,  and  gives 
the  spiritual  instead  of  the  material  signification.  It  begins 
with  motive,  instead  of  act,  where  Jesus  formed  his  esti- 
mate; and  there  correcting  the  motive,  it  corrects  the  act 
that  results  from  the  motive.  The  Science  of  Christianity 
makes  pure  the  fountain,  in  order  to  purify  the  stream.  It 
begins  in  mind  to  heal  the  body,  the  same  as  it  begins  in 
motive  to  correct  the  act,  and  through  which  to  judge  of  it. 
The  Master  of  metaphysics,  reading  the  mind  of  the  poor 
woman  who  dropped  her  mite  into  the  treasury,  said, 
"She  hath  cast  in  more  than  they  all."  Again,  he  charged 
home  a  crime  to  mind,  regardless  of  any  outward  act,  and 
sentenced  it  as  our  judges  would  not  have  done  to-day. 
Jesus  knew  that  adultery  is  a  crime,  and  mind  is  the  crim- 
inal. I  wish  the  age  was  up  to  his  understanding  of  these 
two  facts,  so  important  to  progress  and  Christianity. 

"They  shall  take  up  serpents;  and  if  they  drink  any 
deadly  thing,  it  shall  not  hurt  them."  This  is  an  unquali- 
fied statement  of  the  duty  and  ability  of  Christians  to  heal 
the  sick;  and  it  contains  no  argument  for  a  creed  or  doc- 


8  SERMON 

trine,  it«miplies  no  necessity  beyond  the  understanding  of 
God,  and  obedience  to  His  government,  that  heals  both 
mind  and  body;  God,  —  not  a  person  to  whom  we  should 
pray  to  heal  the  sick,  but  the  Life,  Love,  and  Truth  that 
destroy  error  and  death.  Understanding  the  truth  regard- 
ing mind  and  body,  knowing  that  Mind  can  master  sick- 
ness as  well  as  sin,  and  carrying  out  this  government  over 
both  and  bringing  out  the  results  of  this  higher  Chris- 
tianity, we  shall  perceive  the  meaning  of  the  context, 
—  "They  shall  lay  hands  on  the  sick,  and  they  shall 
recover." 

The  world  is  slow  to  perceive  individual  advancement; 
but  when  it  reaches  the  thought  that  has  produced  this, 
then  it  is  willing  to  be  made  whole,  and  no  longer  quarrels 
with  the  individual.  Plato  did  better;  he  said,  "What 
thou  seest,  that  thou  beest." 

The  mistaken  views  entertained  of  Deity  becloud  the 
light  of  revelation,  and  suffocate  reason  by  materialism. 
When  we  understand  that  God  is  what  the  Scriptures  have 
declared,  —  namely.  Life,  Truth,  and  Love,  —  we  shall 
learn  to  reach  heaven  jthrough  Principle  instead  of  a  par- 
don; and  this  will  make  us  honest  and  laborious,  knowing 
that  we  shall  receive  only  what  we  have  earned^  Jesus 
illustrated  this  by  the  parable  of  the  husbandman.  |jf  we 
work  to  become  Christians  as  honestly  and  as  directly 
upon  a  divine  Principle,  and  adhere  to  the  rule  of  this 
Principle  as  directly  as  we  do  to  the  rule  of  mathematics, 
we  shall  be  Christian  Scientists,  and  do  more  than  we  are 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  9 

now  doing,  and  progress  faster  than  we  are  now  pro- 
gressing, [y^e  should  have  no  anxiety  about  what  is  or 
what  is  not  the  person  of  God,  if  we  understood  the 
Principle  better  and  employed  our  thoughts  more  in  dem- 
onstrating it.^  We  are  constantly  thinking  and  talking 
on  the  wrong  side  of  the  question.  The  less  said  or  thought 
of  sin,  sickness,  or  death,  the  better  for  mankind,  morally 
and  physically.  The  greatest  sinner  and  the  most  hope- 
less invalid  think  most  of  sickness  and  of  sin;  but,  having 
learned  that  this  method  has  not  saved  them  from  either, 
why  do  they  go  on  thus,  and  their  moral  advisers  talk  for 
them  on  the  very  subjects  they  would  gladly  discontinue  to 
bring  out  in  their  lives?  Contending  for  the  reality  of 
what  should  disappear  is  like  furnishing  fuel  for  the  flames. 
Is  it  a  duty  for  any  one  to  believe  that  "  the  curse  causeless 
cannot  come"?  Then  it  is  a  higher  duty  to  know  that 
God  never  cursed  man,  His  own  image  and  likeness.  God 
never  made  a  wicked  man;  and  man  made  by  God  had  not 
a  faculty  or  power  underived  from  his  Maker  wherewith  to 

make  himself  wicked 

The  only  correct  answer  to  the  question,  "Who  is 
the  author  of  evU?"  is  the  scientific  statement  that 
evil  is  unreal;  that  God  made  all  that  was  made,  but 
He  never  made  sin  or  sickness,  either  an  error  of  mind 
or  of  body.  Life  in  matter  is  a  dream:  sin,  sickness, 
and  death  are  this  dream.  Life  is  Spirit;  and  wien  we 
waken  from  the  dream  of  life  in  matter,  we  shall  learn  this 
grand  truth  of  being.    St.  John  saw  the  vision  of  life  in 


10  SERMON 

matter;  and  he  saw  it  pass  away,  —  an  illusion.  The 
dragon  that  was  wroth  with  the  woman,  and  stood  ready 
"to  devour  the  child  as  soon  as  it  was  born,"  was  the  vision 
of  envy,  jjensuality,  and  malice,  ready  to  devour  the  idea 
of  Truth.  But  the  beast  bowed  before  the  Lamb :  it  was 
supposed  to  have  fought  the  manhood  of  God,  that  Jesus 
represented;  but  it  fell  before  the  womanhood  of  God, 
that  presented  the  highest  ideal  of  Love.  Let  us  re- 
member that  God  —  good  —  is  omnipotent;  therefore  evil 
is  impotent.  [There  is  but  one  side  to  good,  —  it  has  no _ 
evil  side;  there  is  but  one  side  to  reality,  and  that  is  the 
good  side.) 

God  is  All,  and  in  all:  that  finishes  the  question  of 
a  good  and  a  bad  side  to  existence.  Truth  is  the  real; 
error  is  the  unreal.  [You  will  gather  the  importance  of 
this  saying,  when  sorrow  seems  to  come,  if  you  will  look 
on  the  bright  side  ;J  for  sorrow  endureth  but  for  the  night, 
and  joy  cometh  with  the  light.  Then  will  your  sorrow  be 
a  dream,  and  your  waking  the  reality,  even  the  triumph 
of  Soul  over  sense.  Lif  you  wish  to  be  happy,  argue  with 
yourself  on  the  side  of  happiness  f]  take  the  side  you  wish 
to  carry,  and  be  careful  not  to  talk  on  both  sides,  or  to 
argue  stronger  for  sorrow  tlian  for  joy.  You  are  the  at- 
torney for  the  case,  and  will  win  or  lose  according  to  your 
plea. 

As  the  mountain  hart  panteth  for  the  water  brooks,  so 
panteth  my  heart  for  the  true  fount  and  Soul's  baptism. 
Earth's  fading  dreams  are  empty  streams,  her  fountains 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  11 

play  in  borrowed  sunbeams,  her  plumes  are  plucked  from 
the  wings  of  vanity.  Did  wesurvey  the  cost  of  sublunary 
joy,  we  then  should  gladly  waken  to  see  it  was  unreal.  A 
dream  calleth  itself  a  dreamer,  but  when  the  dream  has 
passed,  man  is  seen  wholly  apart  from  the  dream. 

We  are  in  the  midst  of  a  revolution;  physics  are  yield- 
ing slowly  to  metaphysics;  mortal  mind  rebels  at  its  own 
boundaries;  weary  of  matter,  it  would  catch  the  meaning 
of  Spirit.  The  only  immortal  superstructure  is  built  on 
Truth;  her  modest  tower  rises  slowly,  but  it  stands  and  is 
the  miracle  of  the  hour,  though  it  may  seem  to  the  age  like 
the  great  pyramid  of  Egypt,  —  a  miracle  in  stone.  The 
fires  of  ancient  proscription  burn  upon  the  altars  of  to-day; 
he  who  has  suffered  from  intolerance  is  the  first  to  be  in- 
tolerant. Homoeopathy  may  not  recover  from  the  heel  of 
allopathy  before  lifting  its  foot  against  its  neighbor,  meta- 
physics, although  homoeopathy  has  laid  the  foundation 
stone  of  mental  healing;  it  has  established  this  axiom, 
"The  less  medicine  the  better,"  and  metaphysics  adds, 
"until  you  arrive  at  no  medicine."  When  you  have 
reached  this  high  goal  you  have  learned  that  proportion- 
ately as  matter  went  out  and  Mind  came  in  as  the  remedy, 
was  its  potency.  Metaphysics  places  all  cause  and  cure 
as  mind;  differing  in  this  from  homoeopathy,  where  cause 
and  cure  are  supposed  to  be  both  mind  and  matter.  Meta- 
physics requires  mind  imbued  with  Truth  to  heal  the  sick; 
hence  the  Christianity  of  metaphysical  healing,  and  this 
excellence  above  other  systems.    The  higher  attenuations 


12  SERMON 

of  homoeopathy  contain  no  medicinal  properties,  and 
thus  it  b  found  out  that  Mind  instead  of  matter  heals 
the  sick. 

While  the  matter-physician  feels  the  pulse,  examines 
the  tongue,  etc.,  to  learn  what  matter  is  doing  independent 
of  mind,  when  it  is  self-evident  it  can  do  nothing,  the 
metaphysician  goes  to  the  fount  to  govern  the  streams; 
he  diagnoses  disease  as  mind,  the  basis  of  all  action,  and 
cures  it  thus  when  matter  cannot  cure  it,  showing  he  was 
right.  Thus  it  was  we  discovered  that  all  physical  effects 
originate  in  mind  before  they  can  become  manifest  as 
matter;  we  learned  from  the  Scripture  and  Christ's  healing 
that  God,  directly  or  indirectly,  through  His  providence 
-.or  His  laws,  never  made  a  man  sick.  When  studying  the  i 
two  hundred  and  sixty  remedies  of  the  Jahr,  the  character- 
istic peculiarities  and  the  general  and  moral  symptoms 
requiring  the  remedy,  we  saw  at  once  the  concentrated 
power  of  thought  brought  to  bear  on  the  pharmacy  of 
homoeopathy,  which  made  the  infinitesimal  dose  effectual. 
To  prepare  the  medicine  requires  time  and  thought;  you 
cannot  shake  the  poor  drug  without  the  involuntary 
thought,  "I  am  making  you  more  powerful,"  and  the 
sequel  proves  it;  the  higher  attenuations  prove  that  the 
power  was  the  thought,  for  when  the  drug  disappears  by 
your  process  the  power  remains,  and  homceopathists  ad- 
mit the  higher  attenuations  are  the  most  powerful.  The 
only  objection  to  giving  the  unmedicated  sugar  is,  it  would 
be  dishonest  and  divide  one's  faith  apparently  between 


( 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  13 

matter  and  mind,  and  so  weaken  both  points  of  action; 
taking  hold  of  both  horns  of  the  dilemma,  we  should  work 
at  opposites  and  accompHsh  less  on  either  side. 

The  pharmacy  of  homoeopathy  is  reducing  the  one  him- 
dredth  part  of  a  grain  of  medicine  two  thousand  times, 
shaking  the  preparation  thirty  times  at  every  attenuation. 
There  is  a  moral  to  this  medicine;  the  higher  natures  are 
reached  soonest  by  the  higher  attenuations,  until  the  fact  is 
found  out  they  have  taken  no  medicine,  and  then  the  so- 
called  drug  loses  its  power.  We  have  attenuated  a  grain  of 
aconite  until  it  was  no  longer  aconite,  then  dropped  into 
a  tumblerful  of  water  a  single  drop  of  this  harmless  solu- 
tion, and  administering  one  teaspoonful  of  this  water  at 
intervals  of  half  an  hour  have  cured  the  incipient  stage  of 
fever.  The  highest  attenuation  we  ever  attained  was  to 
leave  the  drug  out  of  the  question,  using  only  the  sugar  of 
milk;  and  with  this  original  dose  we  cured  an  inveterate 
case  of  dropsy.  After  these  experiments  you  cannot  be 
surprised  that  we  resigned  the  imaginary  medicine  alto- 
gether, and  honestly  employed  Mind  as  the  only  curative 
Principle. 

What  are  the  foundations  of  metaphysical  healing? 
Mind,  divine  Science,  the  truth  of  being  that  casts  out 
error  and  thus  heals  the  sick.  You  can  readily  perceive 
this  mental  system  of  healing  is  the  antipode  of  mesmer- 
ism, Beelzebub.  Mesmerism  makes  one  disease  while  it  is 
supposed  to  cure  another,  and  that  one  is  worse  than  the 
first;  mesmerism  is  one  lie  getting  the  better  of  another, 


14  SERMON 

and  the  bigger  lie  occupying  the  field  for  a  period;  it  is  the 
fight  of  beasts,  in  which  the  bigger  animal  beats  the  lesser; 
in  fine,  much  ado  about  nothing.  Medicine  will  not  arrive 
at  the  science  of  treating  disease  until  disease  is  treated 
mentally  and  man  is  healed  morally  and  physically.  What 
has  physiology,  hygiene,  or  physics  done  for  Christianity 
but  to  obscure  the  divine  Principle  of  healing  and  en- 
courage faith  in  an  opposite  direction? 

Great  caution  should  be  exercised  in  the  choice  of 
physicians.  If  you  employ  a  medical  practitioner,  be  sure 
he  is  a  learned  man  and  skilful;  never  trust  yourself  in  the 
hands  of  a  quack.  In  proportion  as  a  physician  is  enlight- 
ened and  liberal  is  he  equipped  with  Truth,  and  his  efforts 
are  salutary;  ignorance  and  charlatanism  are  miserable 
medical  aids.  Metaphysical  healing  includes  infinitely 
more  than  merely  to  know  that  mind  governs  the  body  and 
the  method  of  a  mental  practice.  The  preparation  for  a 
metaphysical  practitioner  is  the  most  arduous  task  I  ever 
performed.  You  must  first  mentally  educate  and  develop 
the  spiritual  sense  or  perceptive  faculty  by  which  one  learns 
the  metaphysical  treatment  of  disease;  you  must  teach 
them  how  to  learn,  together  with  what  they  learn.  I 
waited  many  years  for  a  student  to  reach  the  ability  to 
teach;  it  included  more  than  they  understood. 

Metaphysical  or  divine  Science  reveals  the  Principle  and 
method  of  perfection,  —  how  to  attain  a  mind  in  harmony 
with  God,  in  sympathy  with  all  that  is  right  and  opposed 
to  all  that  is  wrong,  and  a  body  governed  by  this  mind. 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  15 

Christian  Science  repudiates  the  evidences  of  the  senses 
and  rests  upon  the  supremacy  of  God.  Christian  healing, 
established  upon  this  Principle,  vindicates  the  omnipo- 
tence of  the  Supreme  Being  by  employing  no  other  remedy 
than  Truth,  Life,  and  Love,  understood,  to  heal  all  ills 
that  flesh  is  heir  to.  It  places  no  faith  in  hygiene  or  drugs; 
it  reposes  all  faith  in  mind,  in  spiritual  power  divinely 
directed.  By  rightly  understanding  the  power  of  mind 
over  matter,  it  enables  mind  to  govern  matter,  as  it  rises 
to  that  supreme  sense  that  shall  "take  up  serpents"  un- 
harmed, and  "  if  they  drink  any  deadly  thing,  it  shall  not 
hurt  them."  Christian  Science  explains  to  any  one's  per- 
fect satisfaction  the  so-called  miracles  recorded  in  the 
Bible.  Ah!  why  should  man  deny  all  might  to  the  divine 
Mind,  and  claim  another  mind  perpetually  at  war  with  this 
Mind,  when  at  the  same  time  he  calls  God  almighty  and 
admits  in  statement  what  he  denies  in  proof?  You  pray 
for  God  to  heal  you,  but  should  you  expect  this  when  you 
are  acting  oppositely  to  your  prayer,  trying  everything  else 
besides  God,  and  believe  that  sickness  is  something  He 
cannot  reach,  but  medicine  can?  as  if  drugs  were  superior 
to  Deity. 

The  Scripture  says,  "Ye  ask,  and  receive  not,  because 
ye  ask  amiss;"  and  is  it  not  asking  amiss  to  pray  for  a 
proof  of  divine  power,  that  you  have  little  or  no  faith  in 
because  you  do  not  understand  God,  the  Principle  of 
this  proof?  Prayer  will  be  inaudible,  and. works  more 
than  words,  as  we  understand  God  better.    The  Lord's 


16  SERMON 

Prayer,  understood  in  its  spiritual  sense,  and  given  its 
spiritual  version,  can  never  be  repeated  too  often  for  the 
benefit  of  all  who,  having  ears,  hear  and  understand. 
Metaphysical  Science  teaches  us  there  is  no  other  Life, 
substance,  and  intelligence  but  God.  How  much  are  you 
demonstrating  of  this  statement?  which  to  you  hath  the 
most  actual  substance,  —  wealth  and  fame,  or  Truth  and 
Love?  See  to  it,  O  Christian  Scientists,  ye  who  have 
named  the  name  of  Christ  with  a  higher  meaning,  that  you 
abide  by  your  statements,  and  abound  in  Love  and  Truth, 
for  unless  you  do  this  you  are  not  demonstrating  the 
Science  of  metaphysical  healing.  The  immeasurable 
Life  and  Love  will  occupy  your  affections,  come  nearer 
your  hearts  and  into  your  homes  when  you  touch  but  the 
hem  of  Truth's  garment. 

A  word  about  the  five  personal  senses,  and  we  will  leave 
our  abstract  subjects  for  this  time.  The  only  evidence  we 
have  of  sin,  sickness,  or  death  is  furnished  by  these  senses; 
but  how  can  we  rely  on  their  testimony  when  the  senses 
afford  no  evidence  of  Truth?  They  can  neither  see,  hear, 
.  feel,  taste,  nor  smell  God;  and  shall  we  call  that  reliable 
evidence  through  which  we  can  gain  no  understanding  of 
Truth,  Life,  and  Love?  Again,  shall  we  say  that  God 
hath  created  those  senses  through  which  it  is  impossible  to 
approach  Him?  Friends,  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance 
that  we  look  into  these  subjects,  and  gain  our  evidences  of 
Life  from  the  correct  source.  Jesus  said,  "  I  am  the  way, 
/   '        the  truth,  and  the  life.    No  man  cometh  unto  the  Father, 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  17 

but  by  me," — through  the  footsteps  of  Truth.  Not  by  the 
senses  —  the  lusts  of  the  flesh,  the  pride  of  life,  envy, 
hypocrisy,  or  malice,  the  pleasures  or  the  pains  of  the 
personal  senses  —  does  man  get  nearer  his  divine  nature 
and  present  the  image  and  likeness  of  God.  How,  then, 
can  it  be  that  material  man  and  tlie  personal  senses  were 
created  by  God?  Love  makes  the  spiritual  man,  lust 
makes  the  material  so-called  man,  and  God  made  all  that 
was  made;  therefore  the  so-called  material  man  and  these 
personal  senses,  with  all  their  evidences  of  sin,  sickness, 
and  death,  are  but  a  dream,  —  they  are  not  the  realities  of 
life;  and  we  shall  all  leam  this  as  we  awake  to  behold  His 
likeness. 

The  allegory  of  Adam,  when  spiritually  understood, 
explains  this  dream  of  material  life,  even  the  dream  of 
the  "deep  sleep"  that  fell  upon  Adam  when  the  spiritual 
senses  were  hushed  by  material  sense  that  before  had 
claimed  audience  with  a  serpent.  Sin,  sickness,  and 
death  never  proceeded  from  Truth,  Life,  and  Love.  Sin, 
sickness,  and  death  are  error;  they  are  not  Truth^,  and., 
therefore  are  not  true.  Sin  is  a  supposed  mental  condi- 
tion;  sickness  and  death  are  supposed  physical  ones,  but 
all  appeared  through  the  false  supposition  of  life  and  in- 
telligence in  matter.  Sin  was  first  in  the  allegory,  and 
sickness  and  death  were  produced  by  sin.  Then  was  not 
sin  of  mental  origin,  and  did  not  mind  originate  the  de- 
lusion? If  sickness  and  death  came  through  mind,  so 
must  they  go;  and  are  we  not  right  in  ruling  them  out  of 


18  SERMON 

mind  to  destroy  their  effects  upon  the  body,  that  both 
mortal  mind  and  mortal  body  shall  yield  to  the  govern- 
ment of  God,  immortal  Mind?  In  the  words  of  Paul, 
that  "the  old  man"  shall  be  "put  off,"  mortality  shall 
disappear  and  immortality  be  brought  to  light.  People  are 
willing  to  put  new  wine  into  old  bottles;  but  if  this  be 
done,  the  bottle  will  break  and  the  wine  be  spilled. 

There  is  no  connection  between  Spirit  and  matter. 
Spirit  never  entered  and  it  never  escaped  from  matter; 
good  and  evil  never  dwelt  together.  There  is  in  reality 
but  the  good:  Truth  is  the  real;  error,  the  unreal.  We 
cannot  put  the  new  wine  into  old  bottles.  If  that  could  be 
done,  the  world  would  accept  our  sentiments;  it  would  will- 
ingly adopt  the  new  idea,  if  that  idea  could  be  reconciled 
with  the  old  belief;  it  would  put  the  new  wine  into  the 
old  bottle  if  it  could  prevent  its  effervescing  and  keep  it 
from  popping  out  until  it  became  popular. 

The  doctrine  of  atonement  never  did  anything  for  sick- 
ness or  claimed  to  reach  that  woe;  but  Jesus'  mission 
extended  to  the  sick  as  much  as  to  the  sinner:  he  estab- 
lished his  Messiahship  on  the  basis  that  Christ,  Truth, 
heals  the  sick.  Pride,  appetites,  passions,  envy,  and  malice 
will  cease  to  assert  their  Caesar  sway  when  metaphysics  is 
understood;  and  religion  at  the  sick-bed  will  be  no  blind 
Samson  shorn  of  his  locks.  You  must  admit  that  what  is 
teimed  death  has  been  produced  by  a  belief  alone.  The 
Oxford  students  proved  this:  they  killed  a  man  by  no  other 
means  than  making  him  believe  he  was  bleeding  to  death. 


CHRISTIAN  HEALING  19 

A  felon  was  delivered  to  them  for  experiment  to  test  the 
power  of  mind  over  body;  and  they  did  test  it,  and  proved 
it.  They  proved  it  not  in  part,  but  as  a  whole;  tliey 
proved  that  every  organ  of  the  system,  every  function  of 
the  body,  is  governed  directly  and  entirely  by  mind,  else 
those  functions  could  not  have  been  stopped  by  mind  in- 
dependently of  material  conditions.  Had  they  changed 
the  felon's  belief  that  he  was  bleeding  to  death,  removed 
the  bandage  from  his  eyes,  and  he  had  seen  that  a  vein  had 
not  been  opened,  he  would  have  resuscitated.  The  illusive 
origin  of  disease  is  not  an  exception  to  the  origin  of  all 
morta,l  things.  Spirit  is  causation,  and  the  ancient  ques- 
tion. Which  is  first,  the  egg  or  the  bird?  is  answered  by 
the  Scripture,  He  made  "  every  plant  of  the  field  before  it 
was  in  the  earth." 

Heaven's  signet  is  Love.  We  need  it  to  stamp  our  re- 
ligions and  to  spiritualize  thought,  motive,  and  endeavor. 
Tireless  Being,  patient  of  man's  procrastination,  affords 
him  fresh  opportunities  every  hour;  but  if  Science  makes 
a  more  spiritual  demand,  bidding  man  go  up  higher,  he  is 
impatient  perhaps,  or  doubts  the  feasibility  of  the  demand. 
But  let  us  work  more  earnestly  in  His  vineyard,  and  accord- 
ing to  the  model  on  the  mount,  bearing  the  cross  meekly 
along  the  rugged  way,  into  the  wilderness,  up  the  steep 
ascent,  on  to  heaven,  making  our  words  golden  rays  in  the 
sunlight  of  our  deeds;  and  "these  signs  shall  follow  them 
that  believe;  .  .  .  they  shall  lay  hands  on  the  sick,  and 
they  shall  recover." 


20  SERMON 

The  following  hymn  was  sung  at  the  close:  — 

"Oh,  could  we  speak  the  matchless  worth, 
Oh,  could  we  sound  the  glories  forth, 

Which  in  our  Saviour  shine, 
We'd  soar  and  touch  the  heavenly  strings, 
And  vie  with  Gabriel,  while  he  sings. 

In  notes  almost  divine." 


The  University  Press,  Cambridge,  U.  S.  A^ 


THE 

PEOPLE'S   IDEA  OF  GOD 

ITS   EFFECT   ON 

HEALTH  AND  CHRISTIANITY 

BY 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

AUTHOR   OF   SCIENCE   AND   HEALTH    WITH    KEY   TO   THE 
SCRIPTURES 

A  SERMON  DELIVERED  AT  BOSTON 


Published  by 

The  Christian  Science  Publishing  Society 

FOR  THE  TRUSTEES  UNDER  THE  WIIL  OF  MARY  BAKER  G.  EDDY 

BOSTON,  U.S. A. 


Authorized  Literature  of 

The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist 

in  Boston,  Massachusetts 


Copyright,  i886,  igo8 
By  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy 

Copyright  renewed,  IQI4 


All  rights  reserved 


SERMON 


SUBJECT 

THE    PEOPLE'S    IDEA    OF    GOD 

Text:  (hie  Lord,  one  faith,  one  baptism.  —  Ephesians  iv.  5. 

TT^VERY  step  of  progress  is  a  step  more  spiritual.  The 
•*— ^  great  element  of  reform  is  not  born  of  human  wis- 
<lom;  it  draws  not  its  life  from  human  organizations; 
rather  is  it  the  crumbling  away  of  material  elements  from 
reason,  the  translation  of  law  back  to  its  original  language, 
—  Mind,  and  the  final  unity  between  man  and  God. 
The  footsteps  of  thought,  as  they  pass  from  the  sensual 
side  of  existence  to  the  reality  and  Soul  of  all  things,  are 
slow,  portending  a  long  night  to  the  traveller;  but  the 
guardians  of  the  gloom  are  the  angels  of  His  presence,  that 
impart  grandeur  to  the  intellectual  wrestling  and  colli- 
sions with  old-time  faiths,  as  we  drift  into  more  spiritual 
latitudes.  The  beatings  of  our  heart  can  be  heard;  but 
the  ceaseless  throbbings  and  throes  of  thought  are  unheard, 
as  it  changes  from  material  to  spiritual  standpoints.  Even 
.  the  pangs  of  death  disappear,  accordingly  as  the  under- 
I     standing  that  we  are  spiritual  beings  here  reappears,  and 


2  SERMON 

we  leam  our  capabilities  for  good,  which  insures  man's 
continuance  and  is  the  true  glory  of  immortality. 

The  improved  theory  and  practice  of  religion  and  of 
medicine  are  mainly  due  to  the  people's  improved  viewa 
of  the  Supreme  Being.  As  the  finite  sense  of  Deity,  based 
on  material  conceptions  of  spiritual  being,  yields  its  grosser 
elements,  we  shall  learn  what  God  is,  and  what  God  does. 
The  Hebrew  term  that  gives  another  letter  to  the  word 
God  and  makes  it  good,  imites  Science  and  Christianity, 
whereby  we  learn  that  God,  good,  is  imiversal,  and  the 
divine  Principle,  —  Life,  Truth,  Love;  and  this  Principle  is 
learned  through  goodness,  and  of  Mind  instead  of  matter, 
of  Soul  instead  of  the  senses,  and  by  revelation  supporting 
reason.  It  is  the  false  conceptions  of  Spirit,  based  on  the 
evidences  gained  from  the  material  senses,  that  make  a 
Christian  only  in  theory,  shockingly  material  in  practice, 
and  form  its  Deity  out  of  the  worst  human  qualities,  else 
of  wood  or  stone. 

Such  a  theory  has  overturned  empires  in  demoniacal  con- 
tests over  religion.  Proportionately  as  the  people's  belief 
of  God,  in  every  age,  has  been  dematerialized  and  unfinited 
has  their  Deity  become  good;  no  longer  a  personal  tyrant 
or  a  molten  image,  but  the  divine  Life,  Truth,  and  Love, 
—  Life  without  beginning  or  ending,  Truth  without  a 
lapse  or  error,  and  Love  universal,  infinite,  eternal.  This 
more  perfect  idea,  held  constantly  before  the  people's 
mind,  must  have  a  benign  and  elevating  influence  upon 
the  character  of  nations  as  well  as  individuals,  and  will 


THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  3 

lift  man  ultimately  to  the  understanding  that  our  ideals 
form  our  characters,  that  as  a  man  "  thinketh  in  his  heart, 
so  is  he."  The  crudest  ideals  of  speculative  theology 
have  made  monsters  of  men;  and  the  ideals  of  materia 
medica  have  made  helpless  invalids  and  cripples.  The 
eternal  roasting  amidst  noxious  vapors;  the  election  of  the 
minority  to  be  saved  and  the  majority  to  be  eternally  pun- 
ished; the  wrath  of  God,  to  be  appeased  by  the  sacrifice 
and  torture  of  His  favorite  Son,  —  are  some  of  the  false 
beliefs  that  have  produced  sin,  sickness,  and  death;  and 
then  would  aflBrm  that  these  are  natural,  and  that  Chris- 
tianity and  Christ-healing  are  preternatural;  yea,  that 
make  a  mysterious  God  and  a  natural  devil. 

Let  us  rejoice  that  the  bow  of  omnipotence  already 
spans  the  moral  heavens  with  light,  and  that  the  more 
spiritual  idea  of  good  and  Truth  meets  the  old  material 
thought  like  a  promise  upon  the  cloud,  while  it  inscribes 
on  the  thoughts  of  men  at  this  period  a  more  metaphysical 
religion  founded  upon  Christian  Science.  A  personal 
God  is  based  on  finite  premises,  where  thought  begins 
wrongly  to  apprehend  the  infinite,  even  the  quality  or  the 
quantity  of  eternal  good.  This  limited  sense  of  God  as 
good  limits  human  thought  and  action  in  their  goodness, 
and  assigns  them  mortal  fetters  in  the  outset.  It  has  im- 
planted in  our  religions  certain  unspiritual  shifts,  such  as 
dependence  on  personal  pardon  for  salvation,  rather  than 
obedience  to  our  Father's  demands,  whereby  we  grow  out 
of  sin  in  the  way  that  our  Lord  has  appointed;  namely. 


4  SERIVION 

by  working  out  our  own  salvation.  It  has  given  to  all 
systems  of  materia  medica  nothing  but  materialism,  — 
more  faith  in  hygiene  and  drugs  than  in  God.  Idolatry 
sprang  from  the  belief  that  God  is  a  form,  more  than  an 
infinite  and  divine  Mind;  sin,  sickness,  and  death  origi- 
nated in  the  belief  that  Spirit  materialized  into  a  body, 
infinity  became  finity,  or  man,  and  the  eternal  entered  the 
temporal.  Mythology,  or  the  myth  of  ologies,  said  that 
Life,  which  is  infinite  and  eternal,  could  enter  finite  man 
through  his  nostrils,  and  matter  become  intelligent  of 
good  and  evil,  because  a  serpent  said  it.  When  first  good, 
Grod,  was  named  a  person,  and  evil  another  person,  the 
error  that  a  personal  God  and  a  personal  devil  entered 
into  partnership  and  would  form  a  third  person,  called 
material  man,  obtained  expression.  But  these  unspirit- 
ual  and  mysterious  ideas  of  God  and  man  are  far  from 
correct. 

The  glorious  Godhead  is  Life,  Truth,  and  Love,  and 
these  three  terms  for  one  divine  Principle  are  the  three  in 
one  that  can  be  understood,  and  that  find  no  reflection  in 
sinning,  sick,  and  dying  mortals.  No  miracle  of  grace  can 
make  a  spiritual  mind  out  of  beliefs  that  are  as  material  as 
the  heathen  deities.  The  pagan  priests  appoLited  Apollo 
and  Esculapius  the  gods  of  medicine,  and  they  inquired  of 
these  heathen  deities  what  drugs  to  prescribe.  Systems 
of  religion  and  of  medicine  grown  out  of  such  false  ideals 
of  the  Supreme  Being  cannot  heal  the  sick  and  cast  out 
devils,  error.    Eschewing  a  materialistic  and  idolatrous 


THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  5 

theory  and  practice  of  medicine  and  religion,  the  apostle 
devoutly  recommends  the  more  spiritual  Christianity,  — 
"one  Lord,  one  faith,  one  baptism."  The  prophets  and 
apostles,  whose  lives  are  the  embodiment  of  a  living  faith, 
have  not  taken  away  our  Lord,  that  we  know  not  where  they 
have  laid  him;  they  have  resurrected  a  deathless  life  of 
love;  and  into  the  cold  materialisms  of  dogma  and  doctrine 
we  look  in  vain  for  their  more  spiritual  ideal,  the  risen 
Christ,  whose  materia  medica  and  theology  were  one. 

The  ideals  of  primitive  Christianity  are  nigh,  even  at 
our  door.  Truth  is  not  lost  in  the  mists  of  remoteness  or 
the  barbarisms  of  spiritless  codes.  The  right  ideal  is  not 
buried,  but  has  risen  higher  to  our  mortal  sense,  and 
having  overcome  death  and  the  grave,  wrapped  in  a  pure 
winding-sheet,  it  sitteth  beside  the  sepulchre  in  angel 
form,  saying  unto  us,  "Life  is  God;  and  our  ideal  of  God 
has  risen  above  the  sod  to  declare  His  omnipotence."  This 
white-robed  thought  points  away  from  matter  and  doc- 
trine, or  dogma,  to  the  diviner  sense  of  Life  and  Love,  — 
yea,  to  the  Principle  that  is  God,  and  to  the  demonstra- 
tion thereof  in  healing  the  sick.  Let  us  then  heed  this  heav- 
enly visitant,  and  not  entertain  the  angel  unawares. 

The  ego  is  not  self-existent  matter  animated  by  mind, 
but  in  itself  is  mind;  therefore  a  Truth-filled  mind  makes 
a  pure  Christianity  and  a  healthy  mind  and  body.  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  said,  in  a  lecture  before  the  Harvard 
Medical  School :  "  I  firmly  believe  that  if  the  whole  materia 
medica  could  be  sunk  to  the  bottom  of  the  sea,  it  would  be 


6  SERMON 

all  the  better  for  mankind  and  all  the  worse  for  the  fishes." 
Dr.  Benjamin  Waterhouse  writes:  "I  am  sick  of  learned 
quackery."  Dr.  Abercrombic,  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  in  Edinburgh,  writes:  "Medicine  is  the 
science  of  guessing."  Dr.  James  Johnson,  Surgeon  Ex- 
traordinary to  the  King,  says :  "  I  declare  my  conscientious 
belief,  founded  on  long  observation  and  reflection,  that 
if  there  was  not  a  single  physician,  surgeon,  apothecary, 
man-midwife,  chemist,  druggist,  or  drug  on  the  face  of 
the  earth,  there  would  be  less  sickness  and  less  mortality 
than  now  obtains."  Voltaire  says:  "The  art  of  medicine 
consists  in  amusing  the  patient  while  nature  cures  the 
disease." 

Believing  that  man  is  the  victim  of  his  Maker,  we  natu- 
rally fear  God  more  than  we  love  Him;  whereas  "perfect 
Love  casteth  out  fear; "  but  when  we  learn  God  aright,  we 
love  Him,  because  He  is  found  altogether  lovely.  Thus  it 
is  that  a  more  spiritual  and  true  ideal  of  Deity  improves 
the  race  physically  and  spiritually.  God  is  no  longer  a 
mystery  to  the  Christian  Scientist,  but  a  divine  Principle, 
imderstood  in  part,  because  the  grand  realities  of  Life  and 
Truth  are  found  destroying  sin,  sickness,  and  death;  and 
it  should  no  longer  be  deemed  treason  to  understand  God, 
when  the  Scriptures  enjoin  us  to  "acquaint  now  thyself 
with  Him  [God],  and  be  at  peace;"  we  should  understand 
something  of  that  great  good  for  which  we  are  to  leave  all 
else. 

Periods  and  peoples  are  characterized  by  their  highest 


THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  7 

or  their  lowest  ideals,  by  their  God  and  their  devil.  We  are 
all  sculptors,  working  out  our  own  ideals,  and  leaving  the 
impress  of  mind  on  the  body  as  well  as  on  history  and 
marble,  chiselling  to  higher  excellence,  or  leaving  to  rot  and 
ruin  the  mind's  ideals.  Recognizing  this  as  we  ought,  we 
shall  turn  often  from  marble  to  model,  from  matter  to 
Mind,  to  beautify  and  exalt  our  lives. 

"Chisel  in  hand  stood  a  sculptor-boy, 

With  his  marble  block  before  him; 
And  his  face  lit  up  with  a  smile  of  joy 

As  an  angel  dream  passed  o'er  him. 
He  carved  the  dream  on  that  shapeless  stone 

With  many  a  sharp  incision. 
With  heaven's  own  light  the  sculptor  shone,  — 

He  had  caught  the  angel-vision. 

**  Sculptors  of  life  are  we  as  we  stand 

With  oiu-  lives  uncarved  before  us, 
Waiting  the  hour  when  at  God's  command 

Oiu:  life  dream  passes  o'er  us. 
K  we  carve  it  then  on  the  yielding  stone 

With  many  a  sharp  incision, 
Its  heavenly  beauty  shall  be  our  own,  — 

Our  lives  that  angel-vision." 

To  remove  those  objects  of  sense  called  sickness  and  dis- 
ease, we  must  appeal  to  mind  to  Improve  its  subjects  and 
objects  of  thought,  and  give  to  the  body  those  better  de- 
lineations. Scientific  discovery  and  the  inspiration  of 
Truth  have  taught  me  that  the  health  and  character  of 
man  become  more  or  less  perfect  as  his  mind-models  are 
more  or  less  spiritual.  Because  God  is  Spirit,  our  thoughts 
must  spiritualize  to  approach  Him,  and  our  methods  grow 
more  spiritual  to  accord  with  our  thoughts.    Religion  and 


8  SERMON 

medicine  must  be  dematerialized  to  present  the  right  idea 
of  Truth;  then  will  this  idea  cast  out  error  and  heal  the 
sick.  If  changeableness  that  repenteth  itself;  partiality 
that  elects  some  to  be  saved  and  others  to  be  lost,  or  that 
answers  the  prayer  of  one  and  not  of  another;  if  incom- 
petency that  cannot  heal  the  sick,  or  lack  of  love  that  will 
not;  if  unmercifulness,  that  for  the  sins  of  a  few  tired 
years  punishes  man  eternally,  —  are  our  conceptions  of 
Deity,  we  shall  bring  out  these  qualities  of  character  in  our 
own  lives  and  extend  their  influence  to  others. 

Judaism,  enjoining  the  limited  and  definite  form  of  a 
national  religion,  was  not  more  the  antithesis  of  Chris- 
tianity than  are  our  finite  and  material  conceptions  of 
Deity.  Life  is  God;  but  we  say  that  Life  is  carried  on 
through  principal  processes,  and  speculate  concerning 
material  forces.  Mind  is  supreme;  and  yet  we  make  more 
of  matter,  and  lean  upon  it  for  health  and  life.  Mind, 
that  governs  the  universe,  governs  every  action  of  the  body 
as  directly  as  it  moves  a  planet  and  controls  the  muscles 
of  the  arm.  God  grant  that  the  trembling  chords  of  human 
hope  shall  again  be  swept  by  the  divine  Talitha  cumi, 
"Damsel,  I  say  unto  thee,  arise."  Then  shall  Christian 
Science  again  appear,  to  light  our  sepulchres  with  im- 
mortality. We  thank  our  Father  that  to-day  the  uncre- 
mated  fossils  of  material  systems,  already  charred,  are 
fast  fading  into  ashes;  and  that  man  will  ere  long  stop 
trusting  where  there  is  no  trust,  and  gorging  his  faith  with 
skill  proved  a  million  times  unskilful. 


THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  9 

Christian  Science  has  one  faith,  one  Lord,  one  baptism; 
and  this  faith  builds  on  Spirit,  not  matter;  and  this  bap- 
tism is  the  pm-ification  of  mind,  —  not  an  ablution  of  the 
body,  but  tears  of  repentance,  an  overflowing  love,  wash- 
ing away  the  motives  for  sin;  yea,  it  is  love  leaving  self 
for  God.  The  cool  bath  may  refresh  the  body,  or  as  com- 
pliance with  a  religious  rite  may  declare  one's  belief;  but 
it  cannot  purify  his  mind,  or  meet  the  demands  of  Love. 
It  is  the  baptism  of  Spirit  that  washes  our  robes  and  makes 
them  white  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb;  that  bathes  us  in  the 
life  of  Truth  and  the  truth  of  Life.  Having  one  Lord,  we 
shall  not  be  idolaters,  dividing  om*  homage  and  obedience 
between  matter  and  Spirit;  but  shall  work  out  our  own 
salvation,  after  the  model  of  our  Father,  who  never  par- 
dons the  sin  that  deserves  to  be  punished  and  can  be  de- 
stroyed only  through  suffering. 

We  ask  and  receive  not,  because  we  "ask  amiss;"  even 
dare  to  invoke  the  divine  aid  of  Spirit  to  heal  the  sick,  and 
then  administer  drugs  with  full  confidence  in  their  efficacy, 
showing  our  greater  faith  in  matter,  despite  the  authority 
of  Jesus  that  "ye  cannot  serve  two  masters." 

Silent  prayer  is  a  desire,  fervent,  importunate:  here 
metaphysics  is  seen  to  rise  above  physics,  and  rest  all  faith 
in  Spirit,  and  remove  all  evidence  of  any  other  power  than 
Mind;  whereby  we  learn  the  great  fact  that  there  is  no 
omnipotence,  unless  omnipotence  is  the  ^W-power.  This 
truth  of  Deity,  understood,  destroys  discord  with  the  higher 
and  more  potent  evidences  in  Christian  Science  of  man's 


10  SERMON 

harmony  and  immortality.  Thought  is  the  essence  of  an 
act,  and  the  stronger  element  of  action;  even  as  steam  is 
more  powerful  than  water,  simply  because  it  is  more 
ethereal.  Essences  are  refinements  that  lose  some  materi- 
ality; and  as  we  struggle  through  the  cold  night  of  physics, 
matter  will  become  vague,  and  melt  into  nothing  under  the 
microscope  of  Mind. 

Massachusetts  succored  a  fugitive  slave  in  1853,  and  put 
her  humane  foot  on  a  tyrannical  prohibitory  law  regulating 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  1880.  It  were  well  if  the  sister 
States  had  followed  her  example  and  sustained  as  nobly 
our  constitutional  Bill  of  Rights.  Discerning  the  God- 
given  rights  of  man,  Paul  said,  "  I  was  free  born."  Justice 
and  truth  make  man  free,  injustice  and  error  enslave 
him.  Mental  Science  alone  grasps  the  standard  of  liberty, 
and  battles  for  man's  whole  rights,  divine  as  well  as  hu- 
man. It  assures  us,  of  a  verity,  that  mortal  beliefs,  and 
not  a  law  of  nature,  have  made  men  sinning  and  sick,  — 
that  they  alone  have  fettered  free  limbs,  and  marred  in 
mind  the  model  of  man. 

We  possess  our  own  body,  and  make  it  harmonious  or 
discordant  according  to  the  images  that  thought  reflects 
upon  it.  The  emancipation  of  our  bodies  from  sickness 
will  follow  the  mind's  freedom  from  sin;  and,  as  St.  Paul 
admonishes,  we  should  be  "waiting  for  the  adoption,  to 
wit,  the  redemption  of  our  body."  The  rights  of  man  were 
vindicated  but  in  a  single  instance  when  African  slavery 
was  abolished  on  this  continent,  yet  that  hour  was  a 


THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  11 

prophecy  of  the  full  Hberty  of  the  sons  of  God  as  found  in 
Christian  Science.  The  defenders  of  the  rights  of  the 
colored  man  were  scarcely  done  with  their  battles  before  a 
new  abolitionist  struck  the  keynote  of  higher  claims,  in 
which  it  was  found  that  the  feeblest  mind,  enlightened 
and  spiritualized,  can  free  its  body  from  disease  as  well  as 
sin;  and  this  victory  is  achieved,  not  with  bayonet  and 
blood,  not  by  inhuman  warfare,  but  in  divine  peace. 

Above  the  platform  of  human  rights  let  us  build  another 
staging  for  diviner  claims,  —  even  tJie  supremacy  of  Soul 
over  sense,  wherein  man  cooperates  with  and  is  made  sub- 
ject to  his  Maker.  The  lame,  the  blind,  the  sick,  the  sen- 
sual,, are  slaves,  and  their  fetters  are  gnawing  away  life 
and  hope;  their  chains  are  clasped  by  the  false  teachings, 
false  theories,  false  fears,  that  enforce  new  forms  of  op- 
pression, and  are  the  modern  Pharaohs  that  hold  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel  still  in  bondage.  Mortals,  alias  mortal 
minds,  make  the  laws  that  govern  their  bodies,  as  directly 
as  men  pass  legislative  acts  and  enact  penal  codes;  while 
the  body,  obedient  to  the  legislation  of  mind,  but  ignorant 
of  the  law  of  belief,  calls  its  own  enactments  "laws  of 
matter."  The  legislators  who  are  greatly  responsible  for 
all  the  woes  of  mankind  are  those  leaders  of  public  thought 
who  are  mistaken  in  their  methods  of  humanity. 

The  learned  quacks  of  this  period  "bind  heavy  bur- 
dens," that  they  themselves  will  not  touch  "with  one  of 
their  fingers."  Scientific  guessing  conspires  unwittingly 
against  the  liberty  and  lives  of  men.     Should  we  but 


12  SERMON 

hearken  to  the  higher  law  of  God,  we  should  think  for  one 
moment  of  these  divine  statutes  of  God:  Let  them  have 
"dominion  over  all  the  earth."  "And  if  they  drink  any 
deadly  thing,  it  shall  not  hurt  them;  they  shall  lay  hands 
on  the  sick,  and  they  shall  recover."  The  only  law  of  sick- 
ness or  death  is  a  law  of  mortal  belief,  and  infringement 
on  the  merciful  and  just  government  of  God.  When  this 
great  fact  is  understood,  the  spurious,  imaginary  laws  of 
matter  —  when  matter  is  not  a  lawgiver  —  will  be  dis- 
puted and  trampled  under  the  feet  of  Truth.  Deal,  then, 
with  this  fabulous  law  as  with  an  inhuman  State  law;  re- 
peal it  in  mind,  and  acknowledge  only  God  in  all  thy  ways, 
—  "who  forgiveth  all  thine  iniquities;  who  healeth  all  thy 
dbeases."  Few  there  be  who  know  what  a  power  mind  is 
to  heal  when  imbued  with  the  spiritual  truth  that  lifts  man 
above  the  demands  of  matter. 

As  our  ideas  of  Deity  advance  to  truer  conceptions, 
we  shall  take  in  the  remaining  two  thirds  of  God's  plan 
of  redemption,  —  namely,  man's  salvation  from  sickness 
and  death.  Our  blessed  Master  demonstrated  this  great 
truth  of  healing  the  sick  and  raising  the  dead  as  God's 
whole  plan,  and  proved  the  application  of  its  Principle  to 
human  wants.  Having  faith  in  drugs  and  hygienic  drills, 
we  lose  faith  in  omnipotence,  and  give  the  healing  power 
to  matter  instead  of  Spirit.  As  if  Deity  would  not  if  He 
could,  or  could  not  if  He  would,  give  health  to  man;  when 
our  Father  bestows  heaven  not  more  willingly  than  health; 
for  without  health  there  could  be  no  heaven. 


THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  13 

The  worshippers  of  wood  and  stone  have  a  more  mate- 
rial deity,  hence  a  lower  order  of  humanity,  than  those 
who  believe  that  God  is  a  personal  Spu-it.  But  the  wor- 
shippers of  a  person  have  a  lower  order  of  Christianity  than 
he  who  understands  that  the  Divine  Being  is  more  than  a 
person,  and  can  demonstrate  in  part  this  great  impersonal 
Life,  Truth,  and  Love,  casting  out  error  and  healing  the 
sick.  This  all-important  understanding  is  gained  in 
Christian  Science,  revealing  the  one  God  and  His  all- 
power  and  ever-presence,  and  the  brotherhood  of  man  in 
unity  of  Mind  and  oneness  of  Principle. 

On  the  startled  ear  of  humanity  rings  out  the  iron  tread 
of  merciless  invaders,  putting  man  to  the  rack  for  his 
conscience,  or  forcing  from  the  lips  of  manhood  shameful 
confessions,  —  Galileo  kneeling  at  the  feet  of  priestcraft, 
and  giving  the  lie  to  science.  But  the  lofty  faith  of  the 
pious  Polycarp  proved  the  triumph  of  mind  over  the  body, 
when  they  threatened  to  let  loose  the  wild  beasts  upon  him, 
and  he  replied :  "  Let  them  come;  I  cannot  change  at  once 
from  good  to  bad."  Then  they  bound  him  to  the  stake, 
set  fire  to  the  fagots,  and  his  pure  faith  went  up  through 
the  baptism  of  fire  to  a  higher  sense  of  Life.  The  infidel 
was  blind  who  said,  "  Christianity  is  fit  only  for  women  and 
weak-minded  men."  But  infidels  disagree;  for  Bonaparte 
said:  "Since  ever  the  history  of  Christianity  was  written, 
the  loftiest  intellects  have  had  a  practical  faith  in  God;" 
and  Daniel  Webster  said:  "My  heart  has  assiu*ed  and  re- 
assured me  that  Christianity  must  be  a  divine  reality." 


14  SERMON 

As  our  ideas  of  Deity  become  more  spiritual,  we  express 
them  by  objects  more  beautiful.  To-day  we  clothe  our 
thoughts  of  death  with  flowers  laid  upon  the  bier,  and  in 
our  cemeteries  with  amaranth  blossoms,  evergreen  leaves, 
fragrant  recesses,  cool  grottos,  smiling  fountains,  and 
white  monuments.  The  dismal  gray  stones  of  church- 
yards have  crumbled  into  decay,  as  our  ideas  of  Life  have 
grown  more  spiritual;  and  in  place  of  "bat  and  owl  on  the 
bending  stones,  are  wreaths  of  immortelles,  and  white 
fingers  pointing  upward."  Thus  it  is  that  our  ideas  of 
divinity  form  our  models  of  humanity.  O  Christian  Scien- 
tist, thou  of  the  church  of  the  new-bom;  awake  to  a 
higher  and  holier  love  for  God  and  man;  put  on  the  whole 
armor  of  Truth;  rejoice  in  hope;  be  patient  in  tribulation, 
—  that  ye  may  go  to  the  bed  of  anguish,  and  look  upon  this 
dream  of  life  in  matter,  girt  with  a  higher  sense  of  omnipo- 
tence; and  behold  once  again  the  power  of  divine  Life  and 
Love  to  heal  and  reinstate  man  in  God's  own  image  and 
likeness,  having  "one  Lord,  one  faith,  one  baptism." 


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